“ There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. ”
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to someone at some time. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is no such thing as an insignificant human being. To treat people that way is a kind of sin and there's no reason for it. None. ”
- Debbi Fields- Copy
- 3K
“ What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 947
“ You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.7K
“ You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth. ”
- Odysseus Elytis- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. ”
- John F. Boyes- Copy
- 2.3K
“ This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ”
- Orson Welles- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
- 732
“ Perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the inmost quality of Being. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential. ”
- William Thomas- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
- 2.8K
“ All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing. ”
- Grace Slick- Copy
- 605
“ People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ”
- Anne Sullivan- Copy
- 557
“ Almost anything you do is insignificant, But it is very important that you do it. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 127
“ God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. ”
- Richard J. Foster- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work. ”
- Elena Bonner- Copy
- 618
“ Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. ”
- Ralph Ransom- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. ”
- Charles A. Cerami- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself. ”
- Brendan Francis- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 700
“ The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. ”
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The successful Accelerated Reader is able to read larger than normal "blocks" or "bites" of the printed page with each eye stop. He has accepted, without reservation, the philosophy that the most important benefit of reading is the gaining of information, ideas, mental "picture" and entertainment-not the fretting over words… ”
- Wade E. Cutler- Copy
- 3.7K
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